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Re “Don’t Stall on Inflation Index,” editorial, Jan. 13:
Economists notoriously can come up with numbers to “prove” any point they set out to. As the principal shopper for my family for the past 20 years, I have seen fruit and vegetable prices jump from under a dollar a pound to double or triple that, and meat and fish and all other foods and necessities undergo similarly sharp escalations. So don’t tell me the “true” rate of inflation is a piddling percentage point or two. Get real!
IRVING ELMAN
Pacific Palisades
